In the constant battle to ward off bad luck, Thais will load their cars with variety of objects. This is the interior of my wife’s machine:
There are a couple of images mounted on the dashboard and two amulets hanging from the mirror. These are intended to protect the car and driver from harm.
Today she added to the collection with a bouquet of Jasmine flowers. The flowers not only provide an aroma, they add extra luck to the items already installed. Indeed the Jasmine flowers smell very nice, for around two days. Then overnight they turn black and in the morning your car smells as if a cat has urinated copiously inside it, then died and immediately advanced to a state of extreme decomposition. You have to buy some more, fresh, Jasmine flowers to get rid of the smell. You should also check that there isn’t actually a decomposing cat somewhere in your car; you never know.
With so much luck, how could things go wrong. Well for a start, all the lucky objects tend to distract the driver and limit the vision. Maybe this is the reason that the wife has stuffed her car into the back of another, two times in the last couple of years. Whereas my car, defiantly free of extra-lucky stuff, has remained unscathed. I suspect I have tempted fate with that sentence, better go out and buy some Jasmine flowers just in case.